I don't know how I manage to find myself doing things that are "out of the ordinary" so often. Maybe it's just in my nature to want to tweak things so that they're "just right" or provide the exact user experience I'm looking for, rather than settling...

I was trying out the Query Database object to see how I could get some information from Configuration Manager's database, and I decided to use the ODBC connection type, since it seemed like something that would be more usable from an enterprise perspective...

I just thought I'd give a shout out to Bruno Saille, one of our Senior Systems Engineers in France, who developed the "Opalis VSD Generator". Since I saw the first version of this tool just over a week ago, Bruno has made a LOT of improvements...

System Center Service Manager provides a rich environment for customers to implement their Incident Management processes. The connectors provided with Service Manager to Operations Manager, Configuration Manager and Active Directory greatly simplify...

Caution Test the script(s), processes and/or data file(s) thoroughly in a test environment, and customize them to meet the requirements of your organization before attempting to use it in a production capacity. (See the legal notice here) ...

Opalis 6.3 introduces four new System Center Integration Packs (for SCCM, SCSM, SCVMM, and SCDPM) and updates the existing OpsMgr IP. We'll be posting a number of deep dives into the different Integration Packs to show some of the scenarios we used in...

This post has been revised for Orchestrator and moved to the Orchestrator blog here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/orchestrator/archive/2012/05/04/oit-quick-tip-using-powershell-switch-parameters-in-cli-activities.aspx

Caution Test the script(s), processes and/or data file(s) thoroughly in a test environment, and customize them to meet the requirements of your organization before attempting to use it in a production capacity. (See the legal notice here) ...

In this installment of the "8-Minute-Demo Video Series" by Charles Joy we have a video illustrating the Installation, Configuration and Usage of the hte Opalis Integration Server (OIS) -- System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) Extensibility...

Looks like our very own Charles Joy recently posted some great links on Opalis Help Files & Documentation: Due to circumstances beyond my control, I had to break this “Opalis Help Files & Documentation - All in One Place!” post into two parts...

I am very excited to announce that we have released the next version of Opalis to manufacturing (RTM) and will be available for download very shortly! Opalis 6.3 brings a wealth of integration capability to the System Center suite, including 4 new Integration...

Caution Test the script(s), processes and/or data file(s) thoroughly in a test environment, and customize them to meet the requirements of your organization before attempting to use it in a production capacity. (See the legal notice here) ...

Caution Test the script(s), processes and/or data file(s) thoroughly in a test environment, and customize them to meet the requirements of your organization before attempting to use it in a production capacity. (See the legal notice here) ...

This one’s really more of a tip that you need to configure the URL in the Opalis Integration Server – Client Console before you can use the Operator Console button, but just in case you forget and see the "No Operator Console URL configured"...

Here's a solution we ran across the other day and since I didn't see it published here I thought it would be worth a mention.
Symptoms
You may be unable to connect to BMC Remedy via Opalis Integration Server. When you attempt to do so you receive...

Our very own Bruno Saille has written a very cool tool called the Opalis UI generator that lets an Opalis administrator browse graphically through all policies with a custom start activity, pick one of them, and generate one of these two files, or both...

In the Getting Started with the Configuration Manager IP article, I talked about the basic scenarios we thought about when creating the Configuration Manager Integration Pack. Now it's time to go deeper and address some specific datacenter scenarios in...

Last week I posted about using a PowerShell script to automate VM cluster maintenance , and talked about how the VMM PowerShell snap-in is 64-bit, while Opalis is 32-bit (and therefore runs PowerShell in 32-bit mode). I thought I would take a second and...

The Opalis 6.3 Integration Pack for Microsoft System Center Service Manager provides a mechanism for uploading attachments into Service Manager. The workflow activity “Upload Attachment” has been designed to support uploading different types of...

This post goes under the heading "Sometimes you have to learn the hard way"… or maybe "you don't know what you don't know". As I was building the workflows for patching VMM Clusters using Opalis and the Configuration Manager Integration...

I just thought I would pass on this post from another Opalis user. It seemed he was having an issue with logging on to the Operator Console while using AD authentication. Turns out the fix was rather simple… See his post here: http://msopsmgr.blogspot...

You can find the Operator Console installation superflow here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/E/9/FE9A306D-BFCB-48D6-8748-922B0F1F0E68/SF_OpalisOpConsoleInstall.msi
Just install this msi and it guides you through the installation of...